17.570, Confs: Italian/Syntax/Cambridge, UK

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Subject: 17.570, Confs: Italian/Syntax/Cambridge, UK

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Date: 20-Feb-2006
From: Roberta D'Alessandro < rd325 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting 

	
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:13:39
From: Roberta D'Alessandro < rd325 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting 
 

Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting 
Short Title: CIDSM 

Date: 21-Apr-2006 - 22-Apr-2006 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Roberta D'Alessandro 
Contact Email: rd325 at cam.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Meeting Description: 

1st Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, University of Cambridge, April
21-22, 2006

PROGRAMME

-April 21st

Music Room, Downing College
8:15	9:00	registration
9:00	9:15	Opening

9:15	10:00	invited speaker M.Rita MANZINI (Firenze): 'Unifying morphology and
syntax: Some general results, with illustrations from Italian dialects'
10:00	10:30	Verner EGERLAND (Lund): 'On the syntax of 'uomo' in Old Italian'
10:30	11:00	Anna CARDINALETTI & Lori REPETTI: (Venezia Ca' Foscari & SUNY New
York) 'Proclitic vs enclitic pronouns in Nothern Italian dialects'

11:00	11:30	coffee break

11:30	12:00	Paola VECCHIO (Zürich): 'La distribuzione dei complementatori ka e
ku nel dialetto salentino settentrionale di Francavilla Fontana (BR)'
12:00	12:30	Federico DAMONTE (Padova): 'Matching moods: modal agreement between
CP and IP in Salentino and other southern Italian subjunctive components'
12:30	13:15	invited speaker Cecilia POLETTO (Venezia): 'Sentential particles in
IP and CP'

13:15	14:45	lunch 

14:45	15:15	Nicholas GAYLORD (Texas at Austin): 'Subject-Sensitive Auxiliary
Selection in the Abruzzese Dialects of  Italian'
15:15	15:45	Geraldine LEGENDRE (Johns Hopkins): 'The scope of a person-based
auxiliary-selection in Romance'
15:45	16:30	invited speaker Mair PARRY (Bristol): 'Prohibition and Romance:
negative imperatives in the early vernaculars of Italy'

16:30	17:00	coffee break

17:00	17:30	Silvio CRUSCHINA (Cambridge): 'Fronting as Focalisation in Sicilian'
17:30	18:00	Nicola MUNARO (Venezia): 'Wh-exclamatives and criterial 
freezing: parameterizing the wh-criterion'
18:00	18:30	Antonio SORELLA (Chieti): 'Presentazione del CISDID (Centro
Internazionale per lo Studio e la Didattica dell'Italiano e dei Dialetti), e
della Fondazione Giammarco'

20:00		social dinner

-April 22nd

Music Room, Downing College

9:15	10:00	invited speaker Michele LOPORCARO (Zürich): 'La logica dell'accordo
participiale romanzo'
10:00	10:30	Michela CENNAMO (Napoli Federico II): 'The type 'eve bbwone/seve
jute' in some southern Italian dialects' 
10:30	11:00	Roberta D'ALESSANDRO & Adam LEDGEWAY (Cambridge): 'The Abruzzese T-v
system: feature spreading and the double auxiliary construction'

11:00	11:30	coffee break

11:30	12:00	Francesco-Alessio URSINI (UiL-OTS Utrecht): ''Esse' o 'sta': aspetto
grammaticale nel dialetto aquilano'
12:00	12:30	Christina TORTORA (CUNY, New York): 'Domains of clitic placement in
finite and non-finite clauses: Evidence from a Piedmontese dialect'
12:30	13:00	Francisco ORDOÑEZ & Lori REPETTI (SUNY New York): 'Stressed enclitics'

13:00	14:30	lunch

14:30	15:15	invited speaker Paola BENINCÀ (Padova):'Tipologia delle relative
negli antichi dialetti italiani'
15:15	15:45	Luisa AMENTA (Palermo): 'La perifrasi aviri da/a + infinito in
siciliano'
15:45	16:15	Anna-Maria DI SCIULLO (Université du Québec à Montréal): 'Proximate
a in Fallese'

16:15	16:45	coffee break

16:45	17:15	Sandra PAOLI (Cambridge): 'Information packaging strategies:
evidence from Triestino'
17:15	17:45	Eva REMBERGER & Guido MENSCHING (FU Berlin): 'The left periphery in
Sardinian'
17:45	18:30	invited speaker Nigel VINCENT (Manchester): 'Double complementizer
constructions in the dialects of medieval Italy'

-ALTERNATES

1. Alessandra TOMASELLI & Cecilia POLETTO (Verona & Venezia):  'On Cimbrian
enclisis: a case study on parallel phases'
2. Adriano MURELLI (Pavia): 'Subject clitics in Lombard dialects: evidence from
the ASIS' 
3. Claudia PEVERINI (Cambridge):'Subject-verb non-agreement in Marchigiano' 

Information about accommodation and directions will very soon be available on
our website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/CIDSM.html , where you will
also find the conference program and the downloadable abstracts.
The conference will be held in the Music Room at Downing College (for directions
and further details, see www.dow.cam.ac.uk)

We would also like to remind you that registration is compulsory for all
participants (except the 6 invited guest speakers), and that the registration
fee is five pounds (5 GBP. 

For those who are interested in attending CIDSM but have not registered yet,
there are still some places available, which will be allotted on a
first-come-first-served basis. Please contact Roberta D'Alessandro
(rd325 at cam.ac.uk) if you wish to be included among the participants.

We look forward to seeing you all in Cambridge!

CIDSM Organising Committee





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